5-1: The feeling of being watched
Huai Xiang, a host with a rating of 3S+ who is known to everyone in the world of intelligent brains.
There are millions of hosts in the entire intelligent brain world, but only a handful of people can stand out from millions and obtain a 3S+ rating.
Huai Xiang was one of the best among those hundreds of people. He had traveled to hundreds of different worlds and had been in the AI world for many years.
In the world of AI, almost every high-level system, big or small, knows Huai Xiang and has dealt with him.
“My colleague 069 is your brother’s system.” 073 paused and said, “Among their group, there is also 017, a big shot in the AI world.”
"Big Boss?" Huai Yan asked.
“Yes,” 073 answered decisively, “she is your brother’s lover, and they have been together for many years.”
The wedding of the century in the AI world back then was attended by more than half of the AI world's hosts and systems.
Fearing that Huaiyan might not understand, 073 continued, "The mall we are in now is the largest mall in the entire intelligent brain world. All other branches have to get their goods from this main mall."
“And Ji Yanping, who is also your brother’s lover,” 073 said, word by word, “is the organizer of this mall.”
He's a man even the God System treats with deference.
Huaiyan was actually quite surprised after hearing this.
His deeply ingrained celibacy was largely derived from his brother.
His brother was good enough that he naturally didn't need to rely on anyone to get anything.
Moreover, his older brother, who was admitted to the Federal Military Academy at the age of fifteen with amazing grades, had always been Huaiyan's role model.
Of course, even at this moment, Huaiyan still looked at her brother with admiration.
He simply found it hard to imagine that his brother would have a lover with whom he was about to spend the rest of his life.
After all, in the past, none of them believed in feelings.
Huai Xianghui ignores all attempts to curry favor and rejects people as easily as drinking a glass of water.
Huaiyan, on the other hand, handles matters of the heart with ease, navigating four different dimensions, yet still hasn't revealed her true feelings.
The two brothers were both incredibly indifferent.
Now, Huaiyan has actually heard with her own ears that her brother has a lover and even held a wedding witnessed by millions of people.
“I’ve met your brother once,” 073 said. “I was looking for 069 for something, and I saw him from afar. He was with his lover at the time.”
In short, they are both very happy.
However, those who can stay in the AI world indefinitely are basically free from all attachments.
073 was just puzzled as to why Huai Yan had been looking for his brother for so long, but Huai Xiang had not yet searched for his brother's whereabouts.
“That’s normal,” Huaiyan sighed. “My brother didn’t have much of a connection with the family. He left home before our mother passed away.”
Huai Xiang was admitted to the Federal Military Academy at the age of fifteen, becoming the pride of the upper class and even the entire Federation at that time.
It can be said that Huaiyan's experience is something that others can only dream of.
The Federal Military Academy is known for its strictness, and after entering the academy, Huai Xiang lost contact with his family.
Until that year, their parents were assassinated in the Supreme Court.
The family wanted to contact the military academy immediately and bring Huai Xiang back.
But Huaiyan stopped him. His brother was thousands of kilometers away in a foreign country, and if the military academy didn't allow him to go, it would only cause more trouble.
So Huai Xiang was unaware at first, but his father's secretary had already found him first.
Upon learning the truth, Huai Xiang traveled thousands of miles to attend his parents' funeral.
Later, the parents' enormous inheritance was divided equally between the two, and Huai Xiang took the inheritance and disappeared without a trace.
After all, apart from his parents and younger brother, Huai Xiang didn't care about anyone else in the family.
Huaiyan always felt that perhaps his brother hated him.
I hate that he took it upon himself to suppress the news and keep it a secret.
That's why my brother hasn't come back for so many years; we've only exchanged a few emails on his personal terminal occasionally.
When Huaiyan learned of her brother's whereabouts again, it was when Huai Xiang led the imperial army to the battlefield.
That has almost become a myth within the Federation of Interstellar Nations.
Huai Xiang was the youngest and most outstanding colonel at that time, leading the imperial army to victory in a battle where they were outnumbered.
As a result, Huai Xiang came into the public eye and repeatedly refreshed people's understanding, while also climbing the ranks step by step.
He became an idol to almost all the citizens of the Federation, carrying the hopes of the entire interstellar Federation.
However, during a later battle, several spies were discovered within the military, causing the entire plan to fail.
In that battle, Huai Xiang was framed and died on the battlefield, and the whole country mourned for nearly a year.
Mourning this youngest officer, the hope of the entire Interstellar Federation.
A year later, Huaiyan's figure overlapped with her brother's, and she also entered the Federal Military Academy.
In the end, everything fell into place naturally.
Huaiyan stood in the spot where her brother had once stood, and gazed upon the myriad rivers and endless mountains of China.
That was also the first time Huaiyan truly empathized with her brother.
He then understood the suffocating feeling of having the hopes of his entire family and even the entire galaxy resting on his shoulders.
Therefore, Huaiyan can understand and even agree that her brother has always lived in the world of AI.
The two brothers have paid the price of their lives for the Interstellar Federation and fulfilled their due responsibilities; they have no regrets.
“That seems quite normal,” 073 said. “He left home at 15, so he probably doesn’t have much affection for his family.”
No wonder Huai Xiang left so resolutely back then, leaving nothing behind, and returned alone to the military academy thousands of miles away.
In fact, the Prime Minister of Huai was only seventeen or eighteen years old at the time.
A seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy isn't actually that strong. Perhaps he's already cried, but Huaiyan doesn't know it.
“To be precise, we weren’t exactly orphans at the time,” Huaiyan said sullenly. “We just didn’t have parents, but we still had family members.”
Moreover, Huaiyan also received a huge inheritance from her parents, as well as numerous properties under their names.
Thinking of this, Huaiyan added, "The house was originally supposed to be divided equally among the inheritance, but my brother gave it all to me."
All those properties combined amount to an extremely considerable astronomical figure.
However, it is clear that Huai Xiang did not intend to stay, so he transferred the property to Huai Yan's name.
“I originally thought your brother was just missing,” 073 asked, his brow furrowed. “Then how did you know that your brother could be found here?”
Huaiyan closed the search page of the Dragon Finder and followed 073 away from here.
The boy asked as he walked, his fluttering eyelashes concealing the emotions in his eyes: "It was a voice that told me this when I arrived here."
Looking back now, that voice was probably guidance from the system.
“I’ll find some time to ask 069,” 073 said to the boy after thinking for a moment, “and see if I can help you make an appointment with your brother.”
After saying that, 073 seemed to have thought of something and added, "But before that, you can go to the forum of the AI world and take a look. There should be a picture of Huai Xiang there. Go and confirm it."
Generally speaking, if you happen to encounter someone with the same name, you'll only end up disappointed.
Huai Yan nodded upon hearing this, and followed 073 onto the energy vehicle, returning to the apartment building.
The host's apartment and the system's apartment were not in the same building. After arriving at their destination, the person and the system each returned to their respective apartments.
Huaiyan opened the door of the apartment building and walked into the lobby on the first floor.
"Hello, host. System 0A is at your service."
Upon sensing the arrival of a person, the intelligent robot in the lobby spoke in a slightly mechanical voice.
The sound echoed in the hall, sounding empty and desolate.
Huaiyan frowned, a bad feeling creeping into her heart.
From the moment he stepped out of the house today, he felt as if someone was watching him.
At that time, Huaiyan was busy searching for her brother's whereabouts with the Dragon Ruler and forcibly ignored the existence of the gaze.
Even now, with Huaiyan all alone, that clingy, watchful feeling has returned.
Huai Yan's forehead twitched violently.
He quickly entered the elevator, and only pressed his floor button after the elevator doors slowly closed.
Huai Yan's apartment wasn't on a low floor; it was on the 23rd floor. This was the floor and room he chose when he first came to the Smart World.
Fortunately, the intense feeling disappeared after I got into the elevator.
Huai Yan breathed a huge sigh of relief and leaned against the elevator wall, feeling utterly exhausted.
He almost thought that the men from those different dimensions were about to come after him.
Because he had experienced many such moments across the four planes.
"Hopefully it's just a false alarm," Huaiyan comforted herself.
Back in her apartment, Huaiyan followed the link provided by 073 and entered the forum for the intelligent world.
His goal was clear: to find a photo of the "Huai Xiang".
073 told him that once a person enters the world of AI, there is a 99.99% probability that they will not change their appearance.
Unless it's someone who is extremely dissatisfied with their appearance, they might not be able to redeem a skin they like after accumulating a high number of points.
There are people who exchange for skins, but those with high points and who are willing to exchange are a very small minority.
Most hosts wouldn't be willing to use such a high number of points easily.
Although he knew that Huai Xiang was very powerful, Huai Yan did not think that his brother would change his appearance.
Back in the Interstellar Federation, Huai Xiang's appearance had already captivated countless people.
Huaiyan found the search function in the forum and wanted to find Huai Xiang's photo as 073 had suggested.
Perhaps that "Prime Minister of Huai" was really powerful and famous.
When Huai Yan pressed the search button, several thousand posts popped up, and he roughly estimated that there were tens of thousands more that hadn't been loaded yet.
The boy scanned the posts quickly, searching for those with photos.
Soon, the boy's gaze fell on a post that had been published just a few days ago.
That post has now garnered over 100,000 views and thousands of comments, and it seems to include high-resolution images.
You have to click on the photos in the forum to see the full high-resolution version.
Perhaps because she was too nervous, Huaiyan didn't dare to click on the photo immediately.
Instead, he first read the comments, wanting to mentally prepare himself.
[45L: Brother Huai is as awesome as ever... I'm in awe...]
[59L: I heard that Boss Huai cleared another high-level plane with an SS rank a few days ago, is that true?]
[60L: Guaranteed authentic, I thought I could finally get a chance to partner with someone...]
[61L: Upstairs, it's not even dark yet, why are you dreaming?]
[70L: Hahahaha, you want to partner with Boss Huai? Where does that leave our other big shot?]
Surprisingly, the forum comments were unusually harmonious.
This put Huaiyan at ease.
His fingertips trembled slightly as he tapped the photo.
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